Beijing, Dec 22: China today dismissed a British editorial accusing it of “hijacking” the UN-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen as baseless and politically motivated.
British climate change minister Edward Miliband’s editorial singled out Beijing as the culprit behind the talks’ near collapse.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the piece seemed designed to sow discord among developing nations.
She said the comments by an individual British politician – not mentioning Miliband by name – were an attempt to “shirk the obligations of developed countries to their developing counterparts and foment discord among developing countries, but the attempt was doomed to fail.”
Miliband yesterday wrote that most countries – developed and developing – supported binding cuts in emissions, but that “some leading developing countries currently refuse to countenance this.
–PTI